Try DynaMed until 14 July

The library has currently arranged trial access to DynaMed, so you can get full access until 14 July. This resource will be of particular interest to medical students and staff.

DynaMed is a point-of-care tool, intended to provide evidence-based answers to clinical questions quickly and easily (similar to UpToDate, BMJ Best Practice, eTG Complete and many others). More information about DynaMed is available on their website.

Access DynaMed here (or you can search the Bond website for 'trials' to find it).


The library is currently considering whether DynaMed might be a useful option for Bond. Your feedback is very welcome, just send me an email.

This video will tell you nothing at all about DynaMed, but it's highly amusing (it does go on a bit long though). There's obviously some creative types in the Uni of Calgary medicine program:

Improved access to Trip database

Many of you in the Health Sciences and Medicine will be familiar with the Trip database; it's a freely available clinical search engine for finding evidence to support practice/care.

Recently Trip announced some improvements to the way they link to the full-text of primary research articles, and the library has now set this up so it will work for Bond staff/students.

You need to have a free Trip account for this to work, so if you haven't already, click 'Sign up' on the top right. When creating your free account make sure you select Bond University as your institution.

If you already have a Trip account, log in and click Settings in the top right, and then select Bond University under Your Institutions.

And that's it! From now on when you're searching Trip, make sure you log in, and certain results (primary research articles) will have a Bond.Au full-text link as follows:

 

That Bond.Au link will give you the access that Bond has paid for, so if our subscriptions cover it, you'll go straight to the full text. Any questions or problems please get in touch!

A great resource for Bond researchers

A resource the library is currently highlighting is Sage Research Methods Online. I think it's a fantastic tool for anyone conducting research at Bond - you can search for information on all aspects of the research process, from design and data collection through to writing up your research, and you'll get full text information (books, journal articles, encyclopedias etc.) straight away.

You can access Sage Research Methods Online anytime via the Electronic Resources link on the library homepage. Or click here to try it now - just do a search on something you're interested in (eg. literature review, analysis of variance) and explore the information you get back.

For more detail Sage have produced a few videos, or as always please feel free to get in touch.

New name for Archives of Internal Medicine

I recently tried to access Bond's new subscription to the Archives of Internal Medicine via the eJournal Portal, and couldn't find it! A little investigation revealed that as of January 1st, JAMA have renamed all of their 'Archives' journals.

The new name for Archives of Internal Medicine is JAMA Internal Medicine, so if like me you're trying to find it with the eJournal Portal, you'll need to use the new name:

If you want to check out the journal right now here's a link. The name change affects all 'Archives of...' journals; there's more information from JAMA about this here.

New database of medical cases launched by BioMed Central

BioMed Central have launched a new, freely available database of medical cases, called Cases Database.

The use of cases as a form of evidence is becoming more prevalent; this blog post by Richard Smith talks about this and the rationale for the Cases Database, or you can watch Michael Kidd from the Journal of Medical Case Reports explain:



The Cases Database brings together cases from over 100 journals. You can search for cases by condition, medication/intervention, demographic characteristics such as age or ethnicity, and a range of other criteria. Searching the Cases Database is free, and some of the articles are freely available. If you want an article that's not directly available try the e-Journal Portal, or failing that you can use Document Delivery. If there's anything I can help with just let me know.

A fantastic anatomy resource - Anatomy TV

Bond students and staff have access to a great resource for learning/revising anatomy - Anatomy TV. Detailed 3D models are available focusing on exercise, sports injuries, resistance training, or areas of the body such as the spine, knee etc. etc. You can also view MRIs, photographs and movies/animations relevant to the anatomical area you're studying. Here's a video to get you started:



I've been having a good look at Anatomy TV while making this movie, and it really is very good. You can find it at any time by clicking Electronic Resources from the library homepage. Only 3 people can access it at a time, so if you don't get on just try again later. If you have any questions please get in touch with me.

Watch videos for clinical examination skills! - Bates

I thought I'd highlight a really useful resource with this post - all Bond students have access to a collection of videos which teach physical examination skills.

Bates: A Visual Guide to Physical Examination is available by clicking Electronic Resources on the library homepage - or click here. Then click 'View' and start to browse the available videos.

Use it to learn, consolidate, review, all without reading a thing!

Videos for Sport and Exercise Science

Interested in the most extensive video collection ever assembled in the area of sport and exercise science? The library has arranged a trial of Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video.

You can access it right now here, until the 17 October.

Once you're in, you can click Subjects on the left to start exploring, or do a search for something that interests you.



Your feedback will help determine whether further access to this resource for Bond students and staff will be arranged, so if you love it, think you'll use it, think it will be good for your students - let us know! Likewise, if you don't like it, think it's not relevant or useful, please leave a comment and let us know. You can use our evaluation form, or just shoot me a quick email.

Increased access to the AMH

I'm very happy to announce that Bond's access to the AMH (Australian Medicines Handbook) has now increased from 2 users, to 5 users.


This is a significant increase and should make the AMH more accessible for all students and staff in Health Sciences and Medicine.

The library made the increase as a result of feedback from a number of staff and students, so if you have any suggestions/feedback about library resources - get in touch!